Possible OS versions on a 2000

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Hi everyone.  I have a 2000 with a gvp 030 board, an unknown amount of expanded ram  :-)   and a megachip.  I'd like to experiment with OS versions higher than the 1.3 that I have now.  Stock video for now.  Is there a table somewhere or some other info that shows machines vs ROM versions vs OS versions vs hardware requirements out there?

I'd like to have the most advanced version I can and still get reasonable performance.  Game compatibility would be nice, but I have a 600 and 1200 for that.  thanks

brian

[Retro_71]

Depends what you want to do if you going to play games then maybe OS 1.3 or 2.0.

If you want to get the full out of the 030 then maybe put in a KS 3.1 Rom and install OS 3.9 + patches its the best OS for nearly everything pre OS4.
That way all you have to spend is for the KS rom and os 3.9.
But its depends on what you want to do, I use my A2000 as my work horse i transfer files/ play around with apps/ pretty much everything its the most used amiga I have an 040 in it and OS 3.9 and opalvision card (i know but its just ok :-D  :roll: ).

[nishtek]

hi, depends on version of ROM you have.
Workbench 1.3 requires 1.3 rom
Workbench 2.04/2.1 requires 2.04 rom
Workbench 3.1/3.9 requires 3.1 rom.  

workbench 3.1 runs nicely on gvp 68030, amiga os 3.9 a bit slower (redrawing icons).
if you need rom 3.1 or 2.04 contact - private message.
shipping would be from NY, 14302.

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ok, so it sounds like I want 3.1 roms and either 3.1 or 3.9 OS.  

This is assuming that I won't be playing games on this machine.  I'll reserve the 600 for that, and later the 1200 for aga games.

I have a buddha board which I think would allow me to put the 3.1 roms in flash ram.  Is this right?

brian

[ferrellsl]

You could always use BlizKick to load whatever kickstart ROMs you desire.  Then you can run the appropriate Workbench from floppy or put a custom script on the hard drive to load the appropriate system files depending on whatever kickstart you've made resident using BlizKick.

[mgerics]

Yeh! I had an ol' A500 softkicked to 3.0...or was it 3.1? That was ages ago though - worked great for me, though!

[nishtek]

Isn't it much easier to spend $20-30 on a rom, since softkicking requires more ram resources and takes longer to boot (I softkicked A3000, getting roms for it made it faster).
I'd say kickrom 3.1 is a minimal investment in any desktop amiga.